Liberal Academic Icon Under Fire After Revelations He Hung Out With Epstein

Liberal Icon Noam Chomsky Spent Time with Jeffrey Epstein

It has been revealed that Noam Chomsky, the famed linguistics intellectual and political activist, spent time with Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. This news has sparked outrage from critics.

Meetings with Epstein

Chomsky reportedly met with Epstein several times in 2015 and 2016, while he was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The meetings reportedly happened long after Epstein had registered as a sex offender.

Chomsky said his conversations with Epstein involved politics and academics. In March 2015, Epstein scheduled a meeting with several academics including Chomsky and Harvard University professor Martin Nowak. Chomsky said they met several times at Nowak’s research institute to discuss neuroscience, among other things. About two months later, Epstein was scheduled to fly with Chomsky and his wife to have dinner with them as well as Woody Allen and his wife. At at least one point in 2015, Chomsky was scheduled to fly with Epstein to dine at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse.

Chomsky’s Response

When asked about his relationship with Epstein, Chomsky responded, “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”

Chomsky also told the Journal that at the time he was spending time with Epstein, “what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”

Epstein’s Donations to MIT and Harvard

Epstein donated at least $850,000 to MIT between 2002 and 2017, MIT has said. The school has since said it was inappropriate to accept Epstein’s donation and said it has donated $850,000 to nonprofits that support sex abuse survivors. Chomsky does not appear to have met with Epstein on campus or received funding from him, lawyers investigating MIT’s connections to Epstein found, according to the school.

Epstein also donated more than $9.1 million to Harvard from 1998 to 2008, Harvard has said. Nowak was punished by Harvard in 2021 for violating university policies regarding Epstein. He reportedly gave Epstein “unrestricted” access to campus including an office on campus and a building key card.

Chomsky’s Reputation

Chomsky has been well respected in elite left-wing circles for decades. He is a hard-left critic of American domestic and foreign policy and has written dozens of books, covering such events and issues as 9/11, anarchy, the Middle East, and media and propaganda.

In 2021, Chomsky argued that unvaccinated people should be separated from the rest of society and that getting food was “actually their problem.”